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These bold words were long overdue, but still they would not fill French bellies. Perhaps an even better (and more belated) campaign argument was the billion-dollar U.S. loan that Socialist Léon Blum was bringing back from Washington after ten weeks of negotiation and 21 months of liberation.
It had taken the U.S. a long time to realize that hunger and history worked together, and that a Communist victory in France would push the Western world's frontier with Russia back from the Elbe to the Atlantic.